On 21:56 18 Feb 2002, Art Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Lynne Lawrence wrote:
| > Art Ross wrote:
| > > I've used files with the .bin extension but it was a couple of years
| > > ago. How are they used in linux? ./<filename.bin> or some other way.
| >
| > Try "file ./<filename.bin". That should show you what you have
[...]
| I've included the output from your suggested approach. It appears to be
| an executable.
|
| ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
|dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
Ok, this is an executable.
To run it, say:
./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin
If you get "permission denied", say:
chmod +x rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin
and try again. Since that looks like a RealPlayer installer, this should
be ok. You probably need to be root to do the install, so be VERY SURE
that this binary came from a reputable source and is intact, and isn't
some piece of malware about to eat your machine.
The .bin extension isn't much used on Linux or UNIX per se, it's more
a naming convention for downloads so that if they come off an FTP site
they get transferred in binary mode, and thus not mangled.
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
Do unto others ... then split. - Mary Anne Stasium
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